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From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] the guy who brought up SVr4 on Sun machines
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 09:06:35 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170104170635.GB3405@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <586d297d.1Xe1F+MbZU5jlMCH%schily@schily.net>

On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 05:57:33PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > too little, years  too late, with a license few (including me) really felt
> > comfortable with. Larry IIRC was pushing for a basic BSD license. I don't
> > know if any of us really understood the full implications of the GPL for
> > kernels back then -- both positive and negative.
> 
> The Sun employees have been asked whether they would support the BSD license 
> and many of then said that they will terminate their contract if Sun uses BSD.

Huh?  First of all, Sun employees don't have a contract, they are (or were)
at will employees.  So I think you mean they would quit if it were BSD
licensed.

Second, I've _never_ heard a single Sun person say they would quit if Sun
open sourced something under the BSD license.  I'm sure I've heard someone
say they didn't like that license but never heard anyone giving up their
job over it.


  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-04 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 91+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-04  2:41 Larry McVoy
2017-01-04  3:00 ` Warner Losh
2017-01-04  3:23   ` Dan Cross
2017-01-04  3:35     ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-04 12:24       ` Ed Carp
2017-01-04 16:17       ` ron minnich
2017-01-04 16:31         ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 16:34           ` ron minnich
2017-01-04 16:57             ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 17:06               ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2017-01-04 17:11                 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 17:15                   ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-04 17:40                     ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 17:42                       ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-04 17:48                         ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 17:57                           ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-04 18:24                             ` Dan Cross
2017-01-04 18:30                               ` Dan Cross
2017-01-04 18:25                             ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 18:32                           ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 18:46                             ` Dan Cross
2017-01-05 11:18                               ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-06  2:09                                 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-06  3:07                                   ` Steve Nickolas
2017-01-06 17:38                                   ` Warner Losh
2017-01-04 17:36               ` ron minnich
2017-01-04 17:41                 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 16:46           ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-04 17:02             ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 17:10               ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-04 17:39                 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 17:52                   ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-04 18:23                     ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 18:27                       ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-04 18:29                         ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 18:44                       ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-05 11:50                         ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-06  2:02                           ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-09 13:40                             ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-09 17:48                               ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-10  3:58                               ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-10  4:16                                 ` Warner Losh
2017-01-08  1:37                       ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-05  2:26                 ` Wesley Parish
2017-01-04 18:56       ` Nevin Liber
2017-01-04 19:05         ` Warner Losh
2017-01-04 20:00         ` Clem Cole
2017-01-04 21:20         ` Brad Spencer
2017-01-04 21:57           ` William Pechter
2017-01-04 21:57           ` William Pechter
2017-01-05  0:36       ` Dave Horsfall
2017-01-05  0:43         ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-05  0:50           ` William Pechter
2017-01-05  1:01             ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-05  3:00               ` Wesley Parish
2017-01-05  3:13                 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-05  8:12                   ` Andy Kosela
2017-01-05 16:23                     ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-05 16:31                       ` Clem Cole
2017-01-10 15:12 Berny Goodheart
2017-01-10 16:03 ` arnold
2017-01-10 16:20 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-10 16:24   ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-10 16:32     ` Berny Goodheart
2017-01-10 16:40       ` Chet Ramey
2017-01-10 16:41       ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-10 16:20 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-10 16:34   ` Clem cole
2017-01-10 16:38     ` Chet Ramey
2017-01-10 16:57   ` Berny Goodheart
2017-01-10 17:10     ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-10 17:47   ` Warner Losh
2017-01-10 18:28     ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-10 18:33       ` Warner Losh
2017-01-10 18:42         ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-10 19:21           ` Clem cole
2017-01-10 19:41             ` Clem cole
2017-01-11 21:03             ` Dan Cross
2017-01-11 20:56   ` Dan Cross
2017-01-11 22:57     ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-11 23:06       ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-11 23:52         ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-11 23:57           ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-12  0:07             ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-12  1:58               ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-12 10:39                 ` Joerg Schilling
     [not found] ` <1154c8d8-2051-455e-a3f2-45415d901232.maildroid@localhost>
2017-01-10 16:34   ` Berny Goodheart
2017-01-10 15:38 Noel Chiappa
2017-01-10 21:26 Noel Chiappa
2017-01-11 18:07 Noel Chiappa
2017-01-11 19:37 ` Charles Anthony

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